UA Engineering professor Hao Xin has overcome a major research hurdle in
the race to build invisibility cloaks and other fantastical devices.By Jill Goetz, College of Engineering

Since the beginning of recorded time, humans have used materials
found in nature to improve their lot. Since the turn of this century,
scientists have studied metamaterials, artificial materials engineered
to bend electromagnetic, acoustic and other types of waves in ways not
possible in nature.

Now, Hao Xin, a professor of electrical and computer engineering at
the University of Arizona, has made a discovery with these synthetic
materials that may take engineers one step closer to building
microscopes with superlenses that see molecular-level details, or
shields that conceal military airplanes and even people.

University of Arizona researchers are developing technology that converts smartphones into powerful eye-examining instruments that could prevent millions of people from going blind.

Wolfgang Fink, professor of electrical and computer engineering and biomedical engineering, is principal investigator of a new project funded by the National Science Foundation Partnerships for Innovation: Building Innovation Capacity program to create “smart ophthalmoscopes,” specialized instruments for examining various parts of the eye’s interior. The devices, which can be attached to any smartphone, and accompanying software will enable health care providers, particularly in remote areas, to quickly and easily determine if patients are at risk of losing their vision.

“Our hand-held ophthalmoscopes will permit eye exams in places they would otherwise be impossible,” said Fink, the Edward and Maria Keonjian Endowed Chair and director of the UA Visual and Autonomous... Read Complete Article

UA, ASU and NAU students design and test antennas during a workshop at the Antenna Measurement Techniques Association Meeting and Symposium. Engineering students from all three Arizona public universities don’t often gather at one time.

But that is what happened when 22 students from the University of Arizona, Northern Arizona University and Arizona State University joined the 2014 Antenna Measurement Techniques Association, or AMTA, Meeting and Symposium, held in October in Tucson.

The annual conference highlights the latest technology and research in antenna and other electromagnetic measurement technologies. AMTA Student Day, which was started seven years ago, gives college students a chance to interact... Read Complete Article

ECE graduate student Farah Fargo (center) received the Best Research Poster award at the 2014 IEEE International Cloud and Autonomic Computing Conference in London for her research in cloud computing and load-balancing systems. As more and more organizations realize the benefits of cloud computing -- reduced hardware costs, increased bandwidth, and anywhere, anytime access to data, for example -- engineers are tasked with developing technology to more effectively manage resources in the cloud.

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Tech Launch Arizona Recognizes ECE Professor with Catapult Award

Jonathan Sprinkle, associate professor in the electrical and computer engineering department and inventor of the cost-controlling thermostat, recently received the first-ever UA Catapult Award in Engineering.

Sprinkle was one of four faculty members who received a 2014 Catapult Award from Tech Launch Arizona, a UA organization that helps move inventions and intellectual property from the lab to the marketplace. The awards honored faculty who are bridging the gap between research and consumer needs.

$20M Software Donation Helps Give Students an Edge in the Job Market

Thanks to a $20 million design software donation from Keysight Technologies, formerly Agilent Technologies, UA engineering students have a new tool to help get them certifiably ready for the work world.

As part of its RF and Microwave Industry-Ready Student Certification Program, Keysight has donated EEsof Electronic Design Automation, or EDA, software for UA students to download onto their personal computers.

The program identifies, acknowledges and rewards top students for meeting certain requirements that qualify them as industry-ready in RF, or radio frequency, and microwave fields. To participate in the program, universities must demonstrate the use of the company's software and tools in the curriculum.